The Northern Ireland Assembly is currently consulting on new regulations (known as Smoke-free (Private Vehicles) Regulations) to ban smoking in cars where children are present.

The regulations will allow the use of fixed penalty notices for offences in smoke-free private vehicles and name both the Police Service of Northern Ireland and district councils as enforcement agencies for these measures.

The EU Commission is consulting on a set of possible options for the revision of Directive 2011/64/EU

Council Directive 2011/64/EU sets out EU rules on the structure and rates of excise duty applied to manufactured tobacco. In particular, it defines and classifies various manufactured tobacco products according to their characteristics and lays down the relevant minimum rates of excise duty for the different types of products.